Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your kids broke my window with a slingshot," he said, and struck the schoolmaster. Smarting, Neighbor Fillis vowed vengeance, and knew how to get it. Informing the authorities that he himself had taught two of Nicholas' brothers when they were living in a native quarter, he got the authorities to reopen Nicholas' listing for the Book of Life this year and change it to colored. That meant Nicholas was unlawfully occupying his corrugated iron and brick house in Bertrams. The government hauled him into court...
Outside the Cumberland Township polling place north of Gettysburg a damp snow fell; in the small frame building a potbelly stove glowed comfortably as a dozen early risers politely stepped back to allow their famed neighbor the first primary vote. Dwight Eisenhower grinned a good morning, accepted his ballot from Clerk Herbert Raab, ducked into the farthest of five bunting-draped booths and took 60 seconds to mark his choices for "President of the United States" and 14 other offices. He reappeared to slip the folded paper into a ballot box, then drove off through the snow to Harrisburg...
...ranks of the Opposition there are those who are in favor and those who are against our visit. We regard such a situation as natural, and it does not embarrass us." Khrushchev softly pleaded for peaceful coexistence: "As people say, you have to live with the neighbor that God has sent you and not the neighbors you would like to have...
...story, laid in the 1840s, portrays the life, or lack of life, on a nourishing Russian landowner's estate. The landowner's wife, Natalia, with her bright, trivial, citified mind and self-indulgent nature, is bored by her husband, and more entertained than aroused by her sophisticated neighbor. When her son acquires an attractive young tutor, she half tumbles, half pushes herself into love. Discovering that her young ward is also drawn to the tutor, Natalia jealously tries to marry her off elsewhere. Though all this gives the heartfree tutor's ego a great lift, matters...
Ibsen's Nora. Taunted by a nasty-minded teen-age neighbor, young Tony takes his horrified peek at the lovers and tells his father all. Jeff does a fadeout, and Oliver almost pies his type in fury ("What kind of a woman are you?"). Lucy, who has been rather foggy about her identity, apparently thinks that she is Ibsen's Nora: "Up to now you've treated me ... as though I'm still twenty, to be cuddled, protected, patronized. Finally, in any important matter, disregarded . . . So-now-I no longer accept...